There has been a ton of music in The Simpsons over the years, some original but mostly parody.
What is the best (your favorite) one?
Poll coming …be patient, there will be quite a few.
Note on poll - I am including in the poll most of the original and parody songs from this list on the Simpsons Wiki. I am excluding a few here and there for obscureness, but you may peruse the list and post them as “other” if you like.
As soon as I saw this thread, I had one song pop immediately into my mind, displacing all other thoughts: See my vest.
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak and seats thirty-five…
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Notable omissions:
Anything from Streetcar! The Musical (“Stella! Can’t you hear me yell-ah?”)
Talkin’ Softball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkpyZws4bJ8
I like “Dr. Zaius” but I prefer the other song from Stop the Planet of the Apes I want to get off, Which I don’t know the name of:
I hate ev-ery ape I see
From Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee…
Everything from the Shary Bobbins episode deserves a vote, and “Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart” is a riot, but if I could only choose one, it would definitely be “We Put the [boinnnggg!] in Springfield.”
Ah yes, “You’ll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me.” Sorry, it wasn’t on the Simpsons Wiki list or I definitely would have included it.
My white slippers are albino
African endangered rhino
No contest, it is ‘See My Vest’ for me.
But I do also really like ‘Baby On Board’ (Homer’s Barbershop Quartet is my favourite episode) and always thought the rushed copyright disclaimer at the end of the Kamp Krusty song was especially funny.
Same here. After those two, I’d go with See My Vest.
This.
The “See my vest”-crowd is awfully vocal compared to those who voted for the other songs. Weird.
I voted for “Monorail” over “We Do” because the latter was the first thing that sprung to mind when I read the thread title. It’s brilliant, though the Stonecutters tune is right behind it.
Ooh–just thought of an all-time favorite that was left off the list: “It Was a Very Good Beer.”
“Stonecutter’s Song” followed by “See My Vest.” A lot of people don’t like the Party Posse episode, but I thought the songs were rather catchy, and the episode was decent as well.
See My Vest edges out We Do, but not by much. #3 would definitely be the Monorail song though.
I voted for See My Vest, but I always thought that was a particularly brilliant lyric.
Joe
The Monorail and the Stonecutters songs are the best on this list, but I agree that the songs from Oh, Streetcar! are the best…ever.
You can always depend on the kindness of strangers
To pluck up your spirits, and shield you from dangers
Now here’s a tip from Blanche you won’t regret
A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met
You haaaaaaven’t meeeeet…
STREETCAR!
Come on, that’s GENIUS.
The first thing that came to my mind was See My Vest. The Stonecutters song would be number 2. And just earlier this week I was singing the Street Car song.
I was thinking about voting for the Monorail song but is there a chance the track could bend?
Too short for the poll but still terrific:
“You’re the birthday, you’re the birthday, you’re the birthday boy or girl!”
I voted “Monorail”, though I kind of missed the inclusion of the Mediocre Presidents song.
"We are the mediocre presidents!
You won’t find our faces on dollars or on cents!
There’s Taylor, there’s Tyler, there’s Filmore and there’s Hayes
There’s William Henry Harrison, I died in thirty days!
…and so on 